BANGKOK: In a startling confrontation in Parliament, opposition lawmakers yesterday accused Thailand's deputy prime minister of having close ties with a shadowy Muslim separatist leader in the country's south, and blamed him for recent violence there.
As an opposition move to oust eight Cabinet ministers entered its third day, the Democrat party said Deputy Prime Minister Wan Muhammad Noor Matha was responsible for the recent spate of killings and abductions, largely blamed on Muslim insurgents.